The 8x32 SE is, for me, "long in the tooth" for the following reasons:
1) Rubber fold down eyecups. Heaven forbid you try to share an SE with someone who doesn't wear glasses (I do, my wife doesn't). The SE's got left behind many times for that reason alone. In addition I had to fold the cups down
halfway to get the eye relief right, and twiddle with them a few times in the course of an afternoon. This leads to:
2) That finicky blackout-prone eyepiece. It seems half the users or more have an issue with it. I did, especially if I was in a hurry to get on a bird.
3) Not waterproof. The SE's got left behind at times for this reason too, although I was somewhat overprotective.
4) No hydrophobic, easy-to-clean coatings. Those coatings work.
5) Field of view. The 8x32 SV, for instance, has an extra 33 feet of it.
6) Price. $700-800 is too high for the SE. I paid $500 in, I believe, 2009 for a 550. Brand-new. What happened?
7) The 3D view was of little consequence to me and not a selling point.
8) Poor close focus because of widely spaced objectives.
I had the 8x32 SE for two years but I ended up selling it and I wouldn't really want another. The 8x32 SV solves every issue mentioned above--except price of course.
Just my experience,
Mark